Romany Dictionary
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A adoi adrey, ‘drey akai av akai ambrol arva,arvalie atch, hatch atchava atchen tan avf,avel,’vel,’wel avas avree B bak, bok bakolo baktalo bushti bak balavas bal, balum bar barripoari bang, beng baulo bauri bauromatchi bavol, baval becker beebi bender
berk bero besh bickin bister bister mush bitcher bitchado pardal
bitti bittikanni bocklo si tut bocklo? bokro
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there in, into, within here come here pear yes to stay i stop, remain stopping place to come let us come away
luck lucky happy good luck bacon a pound note peacock the devil policeman snail salmon wind fruit aunt tent, noose on a spring breast ship to sit, nest to sell a summons judge, magistrate to send, to transport sent across, transported little, small partridge hunger, hungry are you hungry? sheep
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boler boobi booti bor boreen
bori, barri bosh kel the bosh boshomengro balanokosht broller brushindo bul bun bungy, bongo buriker, butcker busno C chad chai
chaipani chal char charo chat, chet, chete chaunt ‘chav
‘chava ‘chavaia! chavi chavo cheuri chib chik chikchani chikly chikni chikno chin chingary chinner chiokers chir
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wheel pea work friend, hedge a small country lane big violin play the fiddle violinist, fiddler the violin bow pear, blackberry rain bottom, behind witch lame shop billygoat
posterior girl, young woman seagull chap, fellow, man ashes bowl, plate a thing to sing to stop (from atchav) i stop stop! girl boy knife tongue, speech dust, dirt frog dirty daughter son to cut a fight a hatchet books to sing
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chirilo, chiriko chitengro chitries
chiving chokalis chori chover choviar chovihanni chuffa, chukka chuffes churl coaver cockerel conger D dacker dadrus, dadu (purodad) daia, dai (paridala) dal, del dan dand danners delomeskro deram deriav desh desh to yek deshshel devel develesko mush didikai, didikoi
dik dikkimengro dikkoglimmer dikkamengro diklo ding dinlo, dinilo} dinili } divio, divi, didlo divvus |
bird frog foliage, greens, herbs, vegetables putting shoes, boots poor shop witch witch coat petticoats knife these pot match
toad dad, father grandfather mother grandmother to give to bite booth teeth hammer light sea, ocean ten eleven thousand God Jesus Christ gypsy outside the romany tribes and of mixed blood to look, see mirror mirror a television set scarf to throw silly, stupid, an idiot, a fool crazy day
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djilia dood doosta dordi, dordi
drab drabber drabengo, } drabmengro} drabsap drabaneysapa drag
drom, drum
drummer dui dukker, drukker drukkering } drukkeriben } drukkerebema dunnick dur duro durrel Guvvel dwin dyker
E eef efta emets
F
daida fake faster fauni feeter filshinakos foggus fonga foros
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songs light, moon enough, plenty the most common exclamation poison chemist doctor
adder, viper poisonous snakes car (usually called a motor) road (plural droma) rabbit two to tell fortunes
fortune telling a prophecy cow far long berry God three daffodil
snow seven ants
pegs to make or mend hand ring clothes peg deer tobacco fork fair, market |
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G gad gajikano gatta, gadda gav gavver, gas mush Geyro, Geyri
gilli gillo giv givengro glaze, glazey, } glazer } goodlo goodlokenner gooi goolis goonna Gorgia, Gaujo grai granum grasni grauni griddler griga groi groingero } graiengro } groovni } gurni } grov } groovno } gurno } grunter gry gurli
H hareef haw herengro hero leg hobben holeno holofer hookamen } hockaben } hotchi hotchimengri hummel |
shirt stranger beer at town, to hide policeman
non-Gypsy man and woman song (plural gillia) gone, departed corn farmer window
sugar, sweet beehive pudding testicles bag, sack non-Gypsy horse corn mare gem bicycles heather horse horse-dealer
cow
ox, bull
pig horse cherry
ice to eat crab, lobster wheel of vehicle food landlord, publican sock, stocking lie, fraud, deceit
hedgehog frying pan hair |
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I inncon
J
jarriger jass jaul jel
jib jiffro jigger jin
jinnik jivaben joob joobly joovi juckal,jook,jog } dogue } juvel, juvli
K
kaba kackaratchi ‘kai, ‘koi (akai) kair kako kal kam kammoben kang kanni kanniechor kappar kari kas kassoni kauli kaulochirilo
kavvi, kharvi kavvisaster kaydi kek, kekka kekkavvi kennick kel kepsi |
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apron run away to go (is used for to come) language coat door to know, to understand donkey life louse lousy woman dog
women
kettle magpie here to make, to do uncle cheese to love love, friendship taste chicken, fowl chicken thief blanket penis hay bill-hook black bilberries, blackcurrants kettle kettle iron hat no, not kettle house-dweller to do, to play basket |
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ker, ken, kenner kerengro ketter, ked ki kil kin kipsi kliss klissin klissimengero kokkero kokko kola kom konafni konengri konyo kooli kor kora koramengro koro kosh, kosht kovva kraftni kuriying kushi, kusi kushti
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lacho lalo, lala lalos laster lav lel levinor, livna,} livena } levinorkenna
levinormengris lil lolochirilla loloduianchir lon the bori lon pani
looverni luller
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house house-dweller to gather, to pick to butter to buy to basket to shut lock trap self uncle things love turnip hare peaceful, quiet soldier to fight a fight boxer cup wood, stick a thing turnip fighting a little good, fine, nice, all right
good red cherries to find name word to take, to catch beer
pub, ale-house, inn (also called kitchima) hops a book redpole robin salt the great salt water, the ocean prostitute to arrest |
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mailo, moilo, myla mandi, man, me mandi’s mas masengro matchi matchko, matchiko mato melali melano meski meripan miltog minj
misto moaker mokadi, mokado } moggerdowie } mokadi jook mong monisha, monishi } mollisher } mokri mooi mooikosht mollyin matchi moon (sixmoon) moosh morgan morler mort morum, moro, manum motto muk mukka muladi
mulesko dud mulla mumli mumper, mumpli } hedgemumper, } hedgewrawler }
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donkey i, me my, mine meat butcher fish cat drunk smutty canary tea death shirt private part of female vagina well, all right mule ritually unclean impure dirty fox to beg wife, girlfriend used by mean woman countryside face a whistle pike month sixmonth man hare hand woman bread
drunk learve, let mule haunted by a dead person will-o’-the-wisp corpse candle tramp, traveller with-out any Romany blood
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mulo, muladi, } moolo }
mulladipoos
mumli mumpli
mung murengi murengimatchi mush mushgaying mushgro, musker
N
nafli, nasfalo nantee, nanti nappy, obstinate
narked, narki
nash nav nogo nok nongo
O
ojus ogrusela oito olivas oprey, ‘prey oprey o poov’
oprey o pani’ ora oretla (?) ozt (or ozi?)
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ghost of romanyman or woman in possession of a corpse at certain hours of the day and night; the devil in possession of a corpse. graveyard, cemetery candle the ways of a mumper to beg berry trout man to spy out the land policeman
ill don’t (used mainly to describe a horse) dark, dank, bad, unpleasant to hang name own nose naked
lovely gooseberry eight stockings up, upon pm the ground, in the field on the river or lake clock, watch, time
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palesko panish panashok pansh papin papingo paramikri patrin pattriensis patrimishi
pauni, pani, parni pani, pan paurel, pardal ped peeve, pee pen penyaki pester pero petal petlar pikie
pir pirri pishom pishemgudlo pobble, pobo pogger poggered pokinyed(?) poodellas pooker the kosht that pookers the drom, the pookering-kosh pookersamengri poorami poorano pooro, poori pootsi poover, poovengro posh poshes poshrat poshumesko povel pral praster |
nephew hungry watercress five goose gander rabbit snare leaf herbs used in cures legend, story, fairy-tale water to rain across to walk drink sister; to speak niece to pay leg hoof nut gypsy expelled from tribe stomach foot bee honey apple to beat, to break broken high court judge bellows to ask, to tell
signpost lawyer leek ancient out potato half money halfbreed gypsy woollen apple brother to run |
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pug pugurus purchery puro purum pushka
putch, putcha putcherlengro
R
rai, rye rakli rakonis rap, rup rashai
rarti rartigillichal rat ratvalo rattlers rauni rocker rom rom, romer
romered,} ramado } romni romanichirilo rqamaniratchka retchka retchko rosela, ribisela rove, ruv ruk, rukker rukkersamengri rull rummer rup, rupper ruppavo rustler
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saliwesher sap, sarp, sapper sappeskomatchi saster sasterkabakosh |
ferret, to hide monkey fish pond, fishfarm old onion gun (only used for a flintlock to ask, to enquire smith
gentleman girl trousers silver priest, parson, minster night nightingale blood bloody,bleeding beans lady to talk romany man bridgegroom, husband married
bride, wife water wagtail mallard a duck a drake redcurrant to cry, to weep tree squirrel spoon to marry silver chaffinch flower
bridle snake eel iron, wire kettle-iron |
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scran scroops shant shav, shab,} sherp, shev } sharo, sherro shel shoav shok shollivardo shoon shoshi sim simensa simmin skip skoodalin slang slinger slaberias smowrelias snaff, shiv snorkel solivardo sonnakai sonnasaster sootti sor spingarus spishi splogger stagni stardi starni stiggerus,staggerus,} steggus } stiraben, sturaben stoggers, stoggrus stook stor strangle, strangler summa swiggler
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ta tachiben tarder tarno, tauno, tauni tatcho tatti |
food hops pint
to go head person, foreman, gaffer six cabbage trolley, light cart to hear rabbit to resemble cousin sauce, gravy, soup basket plate license, summons dog license strawberries raspberries snow swede trolley gold copper, bronze skeep all skewer honey to shoot nany-goat hat deer
gate prison, goal stack handkerchief four onion stink pipe
and truth to pull young real, true hot |
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tattikovi tattipani tattitatti tem trigatem tikni, takno, titno tit
titlamengro tober togs tompad, tonpad tood tool toot toov, tuv toovlil toovalo totting, tatting
tovar trash trashd trin trindesh,} trinanda } trushul tukali tulla tullaben tushni tutooti, tooti tuv twilers
V
valin vardo, wardo
vast
W
wafti, wafeti wardis wa …. waver wel
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pepper spirits baked potato countryside heath baby old mare recently in foal snare road clothes parson milk to hold brass tobacco cigarette paper cigarette, a smoke rag and bone dealing axe fright, fear frightened, afraid three
thirty about, trail, cross friendly fat butter basket you tobacco; to smoke trousers
bottle caravan, trolley, wagon, cart, covered vehicle hand
bad playing cards (?) hand other to happen |
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welgora wesh, besh, bos
weshengro weshjook weshimalo wiffler wongur wongustrin woodrush wooshter
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yak, yeck yeckorus year, yurr yog yogengri, yogger yogestowasto yora, yoro, yaras
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market forest, copse, woodland gamekeeper fox owl pigeon coal, money ring on finger bed (or bad?) to throw
one once ear fire gum tongs egg, eggs |
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